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Audrey Macklin

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Administrative law
  • Business and human rights
  • Citizenship
  • Feminism and law
  • Immigration
  • Migrant boat crisis in the Mediterranean
  • Multiculturalism and law
  • Refugee and citizenship law
  • Refugees

Office: N/A
Website
Email: audrey.macklin@utoronto.ca
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Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corruption
  • Police
  • Policing
  • Political-legal ethnography
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • State violence
  • Veterans

Office: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Flora Matheson

Associate Professor

Flora Matheson

Areas of Expertise

  • e-Health Solutions
  • Gambling and homelessness
  • Gender inequities in health
  • Mental health
  • Mental health and addictions
  • Mixed Methods
  • Neighborhoods
  • Prisoner health
  • Problematic Gambling
  • Social determinants of health
  • Substance Use
  • Women's health

Office: N/A
Website
Email: flora.matheson@utoronto.ca
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Kelly Hannah-Moffat

Vice-President, Human Resources & Equity

Professor, Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal records and background checks
  • Gender and Crime
  • Parole
  • Prisons and punishment
  • Punishment
  • Risk assessment
  • Solitary confinement

Office: 416-978-4865
Email: vp.hre@utoronto.ca
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Mariana Valverde

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Airbnb regulations
  • Alcohol issues (liquor licensing)
  • Gay (homosexual) rights
  • LGBTQ
  • Public-private infrastructure partnerships
  • Sexual orientation and the law
  • Sexuality and criminal law
  • Urban order issues

Office: (416) 978-6438 Ext. 229
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: m.valverde@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Light

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Belgorod Oblast
  • Civil liberties in Russia
  • Corruption and crime in Russia
  • Criminal Behaviour
  • Criminal justice
  • International response to Russia
  • Law and Legal Processes
  • Migration
  • Migration and ethnic relations in Russia
  • North caucuses
  • Policing
  • Regional government and federal-regional relations in Russia
  • Russian law enforcement/policing
  • Specific regions of Russia, Moscow
  • Ukraine & Georgia tensions

Office: 416-978-7124 Ext. 227
Languages: English
Website
Email: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
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Michele Peterson-Badali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's rights
  • Youth justice

Office: 416-978-0937
Home: 416-485-4684
Mobile: 416-485-4684
Languages: English
Website
Email: m.petersonbadali@utoronto.ca
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Patrick G. Watson

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Police misconduct
  • Police oversight
  • Police racism
  • Policing
  • Use-of-force

Office: 416-978-5202
Website
Email: patrick.watson@utoronto.ca

Peter Solomon

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal law and procedure in the post-soviet world
  • Criminal policy and policy-making
  • Judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine
  • Law and courts in authoritarian and transitional states
  • Politics of Criminal Justice in Various Countries
  • Russian legal system
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics

Office: 416-946-8959
Website
Email: peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
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Scot Wortley

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community corrections
  • Crime statistics
  • Criminal justice issues
  • Immigration and crime,
  • Media coverage of crime
  • Penology (prisons)
  • Police use of force
  • Racial profiling
  • Racism in the criminal justice system
  • Youth crime and delinquency
  • Youth gangs

Office: 416-946-7428
Website
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca
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